huricanes sux!!!!rant o/t - Page 5

RSVX · #61 09-15-2004, 07:52 AM

The Civic Center screams target... and My family live just off of sunset blvd, near the old chimeny, so flooding shouldnt be an issue.

RSVX · #62 09-16-2004, 07:54 PM

Well, pensacola took most of the damage... the family is OK, our big oak in the back yard fell, but not on the house thank god...

Here are some VERY stunning pics of whats left of Pensacola.

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/...alleries.shtml

lee · #63 09-16-2004, 08:10 PM

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Originally posted by RSVX
Well, pensacola took most of the damage... the family is OK, our big oak in the back yard fell, but not on the house thank god...

Here are some VERY stunning pics of whats left of Pensacola.

http://www.pensacolanewsjournal.com/...alleries.shtml

Glad the family is OK.

Very sad to look at pics of places, now devastated, that I fondly remember. [I lived in apartments on University Parkway, then Corry Field Rd (near the NAS) in the mid/late 70s & got my BS in Physics from the U of West Florida].

SVXphile · #64 09-17-2004, 06:15 PM

Lee,
I got my A school training at Corry field during the summer of '71.

Don

svxistentialist · #65 09-19-2004, 01:13 PM

Wow Chris,

Those photos look awsome. Glad your family are OK.

Joe

lee · #66 09-19-2004, 03:27 PM

even the remnants of hurricanes suck...I hope all is well with my SVX friends up the Eastern seaboard...our TV news shows a lot of flooding from Georgia up to New England.

edit: Now Ivan is back down to Florida, we are getting near tropical storm gusts and it's already rained about an inch today. The local weather guys say it's going to cross the state & head back out into the gulf. Given the angry spirit that Momma Nature has shown this year, I expect it will reform into a storm and head back up to give the Gulf Coast another whack (but I've got my fingers crossed that enough land gets in the way to make it fall apart).

SVXphile · #67 09-21-2004, 05:09 PM

As the moisture of Ivan was moving over us and heading north, I noticed an odd thing on my Intellicast radar. It was a circle of basically clear air surrounded by just a trace of rain in a slightly curved shape. I showed Jean and said if I didn't know better, it looked like someone had removed the eye and let it drift south.
It was like watching a hole move....which made no sense.

THEN...the Weather Channel says the remains of Ivan did just that! Amazing. I had no idea such a thing could happen.

Now the odds are against it, but IF it were able to reform, what would it be called?

Ivan II...the Sequel?

And can you believe the number of tornados that thing spawned?

Don

SVXphile · #68 09-22-2004, 05:13 PM

...but Jeanne seems to be drifting in your direction. This plot keeps changing....showing it tracking closer to Florida.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/222118W5.gif

Don

lee · #69 09-22-2004, 06:12 PM

around here the standing "joke" is to evacuate to wherever the hurricane center says it's going - that way it's sure to miss you.

our local Air Force weather squadron guys think it will move even further to the west, i.e., closer to us.

State Farm is so backed up I won't get to see an adjuster for another 7 to 10 days for the damage to my house. Hopefully if Jeanne does come in, it does it before State Farm gets here - that way at least I avoid two deductables. I have the minimum deductable they will sell now and it's $3K - after Charley/Francis/Ivan I'm willing to bet minimum deductables go from 2% to 5% of the home's value.

SVXphile · #70 09-23-2004, 08:56 AM

"Hopefully if Jeanne does come in, it does it before State Farm gets here - that way at least I avoid two deductables"

Maybe you shouldn't have said that Lee.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/231148W5.gif

Don

...and the latest on "The Storm That Won't Die"

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...IF/231148W.gif

lee · #71 09-23-2004, 01:40 PM

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Originally posted by SVXphile
"Hopefully if Jeanne does come in, it does it before State Farm gets here - that way at least I avoid two deductables"

Maybe you shouldn't have said that Lee.

now you tell me

solarsvx · #72 09-23-2004, 02:42 PM

http://www.axismedia.net/Boys/Events.asp?cid=115

there is some pics of the damage to the house, most of it from charley and some from francise

also a pretty pic of the new turbo =>

SVXphile · #73 09-23-2004, 08:57 PM

Sorry to see the damage to your place James. Hope you get that roof fixed before the next one rolls through. Like 2PM Sunday?

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/ftp/graphics...F/232053W5.gif

You folks sure know how to party down there! (other pics)

Don

solarsvx · #74 09-24-2004, 07:42 AM

thanks don,

im in the process of boardingup the office and my house for a 4th time, this is really getting tiresome

lee let me know if you had inland, maybe we will hit up lunch or something

lee · #75 09-24-2004, 01:36 PM

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lee let me know if you had inland, maybe we will hit up lunch or something

My wife has assumed this illogical attitude and claims she is not leaving this time no matter what - reminds me of the Islammic fatalism I found in Pakistand and Afganistan during the late 80s. So, being the dutiful protector, I will stay where she stays - I've made arrangements for my 16 yr-old since parental instability is no excuse for parental responsibility abdication. Who knows, I may be knocking on your door late at night.